New York – There’s a lot riding on Steve Jobs’ pancreas. After Apple’s CEO announced on Monday that he would be taking a medical leave of absence-his third-skittish investors sent the company’s stock tumbling. Those investors had every reason to be nervous. Apple’s public face has always been a very private soul. And the company …
SINGAPORE—The Singapore government unveiled more measures to stabilize prices in the city-state’s housing market, which it says could rise beyond “sustainable levels.” The moves come less than five months after an earlier set of measures aimed at curbing speculative activity in Singapore’s property market and at a time when Asian economies face mounting inflationary pressures …
SINGAPORE: The starting pay for fresh polytechnic graduates rose 5.3 per cent last year, to an average gross monthly salary of S$1,871. Post-National Service (NS) diploma holders earned an average gross monthly salary of S$2,183, an increase of about 2.5 per cent from 2009. During the economic downturn in 2009, post-NS diploma holders’ gross average …